[CQ-Contest] DX Summit Spots and more

[Ed Sawyer]

Lee, Thank you for a great overview of this needed detail.  Clearly, 100
spots a minute can't flood into DX Summit since it's a visual screen
interface.  Yet, from my observations, it is still widely used as THE
assisted window by many people.  How many?  Enough to give noticeable packet
pileups when you are spotted on it in a CW contest.

 

It would seem that the obvious solution to the RBN spot flood is to
designate just a handful of skimmers around the globe as robot interfaces -
ala W3LPL - and have the flitering set up to only submit the RBN spot once
every 15 or 30 mins.  Populates a global bandmap on CW for everyone running
assisted.  And if that is the way that community wants it.  At least it's a
fairer and more consistent situation.

 

Currently, whether the RBN community wants to admit it or not, there are 2
parallel universes going on in assisted CW contesting.  As a running CQer
that is not manually spotted as much as others - I know the difference -
when I get manually spotted on DX Summit.

 

73

 

Ed  N1UR